Monday, 1 August 2011

I'm not sure that all of the listed below have been made into both movies and TV series, but most have. The selection itself is a small proportion of novels that I've read and have been made into movies. But, they are novels that made a profound impact upon me, one way and another, and when made into movies they didn't always reach my expectations. The exceptions being GWTW, TTB, LOTM, the WWII movies and the swashbucklers.

Epics:

War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

Swashbucklers:

The count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas

Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier

Wicked Lady - Magdalen King-Hall

Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore

Pirate/Adventure:

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Treasure Island - Robert Louise Stevenson

Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

WWII novels:

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

The Cruel Sea - Nevil Shute

Waterloo Bridge (based on play) Robert E. Sherwood.

Bridge over the River Quai - Pierre Boulle

Post War novels:

James Bond (007) - Ian Fleming

Collection of John Le Carre novels made into films.

Childrens Books:

National Velvet - Enid Bagnold

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Swallows & Amazons - Arthur Ransome

Classics: Greek/Roman/Austen/Brontes'/Dickens/Shakespeare etc. Not to mention the longest running play held in the West End "The Mousetrap" adapted from a short story by Agatha Christie. And, of course her famous crime novels made into movies and TV series.